Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-23
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
Mss ODER NAY RETURN 10 THE DEAIs-'THB OLD
H0MESTEAD's" GREAT SUCCESS - SEVERAL ERW
PLAYYHA MISTAKE ABOUT A BABY.

There is rumor that Miss Obef win come out
OF her retirement next season to resume her place
as business manager Of the reorganized Boston
Ideal Opera Company. 1t TO be hoped the rumol
VIII prove true.
j. c. Dun has secured the exclusive rights fo1
the United States and Canada OF Audran's opera
1.-THE GrasshOpper and the Ant, which is now
running in Paris and nearing its three-hundredth
performance. Mr.. Duff will probably cast the
piece with his present company, Lillian Russell
appearing as the Grasshopper.
Miss Vida Croly, a daughter Of "Jennie June,
VIII make her debut on the professional stage al
the Forthcoming production OF "The Highest Bid
DER" at the New York Lyceum.
= Steele Mackayes new play, "Anarchy," viii
have Its first production at Buffalo on May 80.
Another American singer has made her debut
In Milan. She calls herself Anita Alameda. She
is from San Francisco and made her first appear.
ance In "Sonnambula."
Mime. Bernhardt Will be in Chicago next week
Kate Claxton has new play, bearing the
curious title, 'SThe Brain Stealer." She produced
it for the first time in Chicago Monday night One
OF the scenes Is laid in q factory, In which The
machinery Is in motion.
Agnes Herndon has another new play called
"a Remarkable woman" The scene is laid In
Paris, and what makes the woman remarkable is
that she saves the French republic by exposing a
m0narchical plot.
-Denman Thompson, with his old "Old Home
stead" has had one Of the greatest successes Of
the season. 1t is asserted that during the fifteen
weeks engagement at the Fourteenth street Thea
YER New York the receipts have been in the neigh.
borhood of 100000.
Henry E. Dixey has cancelled his California
engagement, chiefly, it is said, because Of the new
Interstate commerce law.
i Lilly Posts voice has failed again, and she has
left McCaulls company for three months rest in
California
Great preparations are making for the pro.
Of
company at Nibo's Garden, New York, on May g
Babies are rdrg ares in theatrical families. it
seems and, as consequence, stage people are not
as FAMILIAR with the natural history and prognoSis
so to speak, OF these blessed epidemics Of human.
lty as people generally are. curious Illustration
Oh tnlS is exciting laughter in New York at the
pense OF Clay Greene, author OF "The Golden
Giant" now running at the Fifth Avenue Theater
me program announces that there is an interval
ot Twelve months between the third and fourth
acts, during Which time Jack Mason and BeSs are
curtain rises in the fourth act the baby is found
10 be at least two years OF age.
the report is going that Evans and Hoey two
very clever people in their line of eccentric CON-
edy, have cleared $4,000 in Hoyts abSurdity, "a
Parlor Match" the past season.
Mrs. D. P. Bowers has closed her season, and
will rest in New York until next season.
-Augustin Daily is arranging to play his COM
pany at the Gaiety Theater, London, from late In
April, 1883, to the end of the following August
William TerriSs will be the manager OF the ven.
ture. The company will probably commence oper.
atoms with "The Tanning OF the Shrew."
The New York Mirror announces that Grant
Parish, of this city, is making arrangements for
tour OF joaquin Miller's "Tally-Ho."
The Dusseldorf Anzeiger of the Goth of March
states that Miss Carrie L. Particle. daughter OF
Mr.. ID. j. Particle, formerly Of Washington, at
present United States Consul at Dusseldorf met
with remarkable success in making her debut as
piano SoOiSt at concert given by the Dilettanti
Orchestral Society at Dusseldorf, on the 23d ul.
t1mO. The A,lzeiger said: "Miss Carrie L. Par.
tello, young American girl, proved herself to be
very meritOriOuS pianist by her excellent rendi-
ton OF Memberships piano concerto in minor
The young artistic has, through course OF study
at the Stuttgart Conservatory, elevated her rich
natural talent to high degree"